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Japan Airlines, JAL to unveil its latest livery painted with “Doraemon” and its animated cartoon characters commerating its 30th aniversary.

In celebration of the 30th aniversary in animated movie business and the 40th aniversary since its creation, an anime movie has been made, named: Doraemon The Movie: Nobita’s Great Battle of the Mermaid King (in Japanese; 映画ドラえもん のび太の人魚大海戦, “Eiga Doraemon Nobita no Ningyo Daikaisen”), also being known as DORAEMON THE LEGEND 2010, will be released on March 6, 2010.

JAL will emblazon on one of its B777-300 aircraft, starting from mid-February and ending in April, scheduled to operate on a number of domestic routes out of Haneda to New Chitose (Sapporo), Itami (Osaka), Fukuoka, and Naha. Inflight service along on this aircraft and all other aircrafts serving the domestic routes will be screening a year 2006 released Doraemon anime movie as part of its inflight entertainment, between February and April, also including on its international routes for a shorter period from March to April.

Further details of the schedule will be announced and released on its official homepage.

Current and past aircraft liveries:

The JAL Group has requested for approval from the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) to maintain the current level of fuel surcharge on all international passenger tickets issued between January 1 and March 31, 2010.

The price of Singapore kerosene-type jet fuel during the 3 month period from August to October 2009 averaged USD$78.04 per barrel. With reference to the fuel surcharge benchmark list for FY2009 (see below), this corresponds to Zone B where fuel surcharges range from 300 yen on a Japan – Korea ticket to 10,000 yen on a Japan- Brazil ticket per person per sector flown, on tickets purchased in Japan.

The fuel surcharge to be placed on tickets issued from April to July 2010 will be reviewed based on the average price of fuel for November 2009 through to January 2010.

The company is continuously conducting a wide range of countermeasures to limit the full impact of the price increase including fuel hedging, fuel consumption reductions, and the introduction of more fuel-efficient small and medium-sized aircraft to its fleet.

Despite these measures, the company is reluctantly obliged to ask its international passengers to bear part of the burden caused by the increase in the price of fuel.

Fuel Surcharge for the period: January 01 – March 31, 2010*

- Applicable to all international passenger tickets issued on or after January 01, to March 31, 2009.
- The surcharge applies to flights operated by Japan Airlines and its subsidiaries, including JAL code-share flights operated by other airlines.
- The planned level of fuel surcharge is subject to government approval.

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